Kurdish fighters gird for battle as ISIS threatens Syrian city of Kobani
By Laura Smith-Spark, Phil Black and Ray Sanchez, CNN
October 3, 2014 -- Updated 1728 GMT (0128 HKT)
Turkish-Syrian border (CNN) -- ISIS fighters entered the besieged Syrian Kurdish city of Kobani, a Kurdish fighter said Friday, setting the stage for a vicious street-to-street battle in the shadow of Turkey's border.
Alan Minbic, a fighter with the Kurdish People's Protection Unit, or YPG, told CNN that ISIS now controls the southwest corner of the city, known in Arabic as Ayn al-Arab.
However, there were conflicting reports. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based monitoring group, said it did not believe that ISIS was in the city itself based on information from more than a dozen sources in Kobani.
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